Title: Broken Record
Author: MidnightCat99
Summary: Inadvertent consequences, forgotten dreams, inerasable memories, unspoken regrets. A series of 13 vignettes. Not as melodramatic as it may sound, I promise!
Rating: K+
Author's Note: Fed up with all the one-shots I seem unable to finish, and inspired by WhiteInfinity21's "Dreams and Dreamers", I decided to write this series of…well, the stories are not exactly drabbles, since most are over 100 words. I guess you'd just call them "very short stories." I'd love to hear what you think! (:
Disclaimer: Obviously, Labyrinth does not belong to me.
#1: Broken Record
Like a dark dream it clings to my mind, breathing its icy breath on my thoughts.
I press my trembling hands to my ears, but that does nothing to impede the tune playing like a broken record in my head. It is a melody a golden music box played until I smashed the vexatious object into oblivion; a song a king once sang to me within a glass bubble, amid a crowd of vibrant, swirling dancers.
Against my conscious volition my white lips part to whisper lyrics I heard only once but I am nonetheless unable to forget. "I'll b-be there for you…as the world falls…down…"
My teeth sink into my tongue, bringing my song to a halt. Still, it continues to play in my mind: I'll be there for you…as the world falls down…
The lies!
Hugging my threadbare jacket to my body, I rise from the hard, frigid ground. My sneakers crunch on the blanket of shattered glass beneath my feet.
My world has fallen down. So where is he?